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APPLIOATION FILED OUT 2, 1911 I I v 7 1,028,504. Patented June 4, 1912.

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JOHN W. SWALES, 0F FRUITVALE, CALIFORNIA.

RAILWAY-RAIL CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1912.

Application filed. October 2, 1911. Serial No. 652,226.

secured together, one of which clamps serves as a fish-plate, and the other exterior one forms the securing device for holding the whole structure upon the tie.

It also comprises details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 shows the tie with its seat. Fig. 3 is a view of the exterior portion of the chair.

It is the object of my invention to provide a secure means for holding railway rails in position upon the ties which carry them.

As shown in the drawings, A represents a rail, of any usual or suitable construction.

2 is an interior chair or portion folded over, as shown, so as to clasp the bottom flanges of the rail and to holdit in firmly, and it may also serve as a fish-plate by which meeting ends of rails are kept in alinement. This plate is secured to a second larger plate 3 which rests upon the tie 4, and which has a sufficiently greater width than the plate 2 to allow the ends to be turned over and form channels within which the bars 5 are inserted, extending transversely across the tie and parallel with the rail. Preferably the plates 3 are sunk into the body of the tie, as plainly shown at 6, and thus are prevented from creeping by any looseness of the holding bars 5. These bars 5 have bolts 7 passing through them, and the tie may also have vertical semi-cylindrical channels, as at 8, through which thebolts pass. These bolts may preferably be U- shaped; the cross portion of the bolt extending across the bottom of the tie, and the ends of the bolts being secured by nuts or otherw1se to the bars 5. The lower surface of the part 3 may also be corrugated or have spurs or projections formed upon it, and these will.

sink into the wood of the tie and further assist in holding it in position. The usual tendency of such adjustments is to work outwardly, especially on curves, and thus to eventually spread the rails enough to allow the train to be derailed, but in the present construction this is all prevented and the chair will maintain its position when once seated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A railway rail chair, comprising inner and outer plates secured one to the other said inner plate having its edges fashioned to engage the flange of the rail and said outer plate having its edges turned toward the first named flanges, and fashioned to form channels, U-shaped bolts embracing the tie and extending up on each side thereof, and a connection between the ends of the bolts passing across the tie through said channels.

2. In a railway rail chair, an inner plate having turned-over edges to clasp the rail, an outer plate having its edges turned to form channels, bars passing through said channels, and U-shaped bolts, the ends of which pass through said bars and are secured thereto.

3. A railway rail support, consisting of an outer plate having its edges turned to form channels, bars extending through said channels across the tie, U-shaped bolts passing across beneath the tie having upturned ends passing through the bars, grooves made in the sides of the tie to receive said ends, and an interior plate secured to the first named plate and having its edges turned over to clasp the rail flanges.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. SWALES.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. I-IERRING, CHARLES EDELMAN.

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Washington, D. 0. 

